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Israel announced to have foiled an attempted cyber-attack on defence firms

Security Affairs

In March the US Treasury sanctioned two Chinese citizens that were also suspected of working with Lazarus Group, they were also accused for the April 2018 hack of an unnamed crypto-currency exchange. One of the attacks hit agricultural water pumps in upper Galilee, while the other one hit water pumps in the central province of Mateh Yehuda.

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Hunting the ICEFOG APT group after years of silence

Security Affairs

Two of them, tracked as ICEFOG-P and ICEFOG-M, have been used in targeted attacks in 2014 and 2018, respectively. In the latest campaign in 2019, tracked as SKYLINE Campaign, hackers targeted Turkey and Kazakhstan, the timestamp suggests the campaign might have been active at least since 2018.

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High Severity DoS bug affects Several Yokogawa products

Security Affairs

The flaw, tracked as CVE-2018-16196, could be exploited by an attacker to stop communication function of Vnet/IP Open Communication Driver triggering a DoS condition. Affected products are used in a broad range of industries worldwide, mainly in the energy, critical manufacturing, and food and agriculture sectors.

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HawkEye Keylogger is involved in attacks against business users

Security Affairs

The latest variant appeared in the cybercrime underground in December 2018, it was named HawkEyeReborn v9. “ In April 2019, threat actors launched numerous campaigns aimed at targeting industries such as transportation and logistics, healthcare, import and export, marketing, agriculture, and others. . .

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DoppelPaymer, a fork of BitPaymer Ransomware, appeared in the threat landscape

Security Affairs

This new variant was behind a series of ransomware campaigns beginning in June 2019, including attacks against the City of Edcouch, Texas and the Chilean Ministry of Agriculture.” “Since the update in November 2018, INDRIK SPIDER has actively used the latest version of BitPaymer in at least 15 confirmed ransomware attacks.

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Feds Warn About Critical Infrastructure Ransomware Attacks, Vulnerabilities

eSecurity Planet

Secret Service issued a detailed advisory on the BlackByte Ransomware as a Service (RaaS) group, which has attacked critical infrastructure industries in recent months, among them government, financial and food and agriculture targets. cybersecurity advisories in recent weeks.

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A Trip to the Hawaiian Islands

Unwritten Record

Agriculture was a major part of the economy of Hawaii, due in part to the year round warm climate. Agriculture is still an important industry in Hawaii, but tourism has eclipsed it as the main industry. In recent times, Kilauea has been in the news for its eruption and destruction that it caused in May 2018.